Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always… — Eglantyne Jebb Copy Share Image
If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image